Bren Brown

e prone to depression or rumination, nostalgia tends to be associated with negative emotional outcomes.

In these challenging moments of dissonance, we need to stay curious and resist choosing comfort over courage.

Vulnerability is courage in you and inadequacy in me.

I’m drawn to your vulnerability but repelled by mine.

I think that’s the biggest watch-out with irony and sarcasm: Are you dressing something up in humor that actually requires clarity and honesty?

Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid

What surprised me the most when I was growing up was how little other people seemed to understand or even think about the connection between feelings, thinking, and behavior.

Ludwig Wittgenstein that I came across in college: “
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

What does it mean if the vastness of human emotion and experience can only be expressed as mad, sad, or happy?

when we are unable to articulate our emotions. We feel hopeless or we feel a destructive level of anger.

language does more than just communicate emotion, it can actually shape what we’re feeling